StageHop
A personal festival-day planner that turns a 10-block, multi-stage lineup into a single chronological schedule tuned to your music taste.
Music fans attending multi-stage street festivals like Khatsahlano who don't want to miss acts and hate scheduling on the fly
- Taste-matching quiz that ranks every set from 'must-see' to 'skip' based on your Spotify history
- Conflict resolver that suggests where to stand to hear the overlap between adjacent stages
- 'Surprise guest' alerts for rumored drops (like Fionn at Khatsahlano) sourced from local venue social posts
- Offline schedule with walking-time estimates between stages on a 10-block footprint
The 2026 Khatsahlano lineup features 50+ acts across at least three stages on one day, and Exclaim's own preview calls out surprise guests that fans need a live alert for.
Khatsahlano 2026 is confirmed (July 11, 10 blocks, multi-stage, curated by Zulu Records) so the target event exists, but it is a single-city annual street party, capping addressable demand; generic festival-planning need is broader but served by many incumbents.Khatsahlano Street Party announces musical lineup for Wonderland-themed ... ↗Khatsahlano! Music + Art Festival | Vancouver BC - Facebook ↗
Direct, well-named competitors already do exactly this: SetFinder covers EDC/Coachella/Ultra with conflict detection + offline, and FestivPlanner offers the same features for free, leaving very little whitespace for a new entrant.Festival Schedule Planner for Set Times, Lineup Conflicts, and Offline ... ↗FestivPlanner — Festival Schedule Planner ↗
Consumer willingness to pay for festival planning tools is weak — SetFinder and FestivPlanner both market themselves as free, and Bandsintown/Songkick monetize via ticketing/concert discovery, not schedule planning; a paid schedule-only app for a one-day street party is a hard sell.Pricing - Music Festivals ↗FestivPlanner — Festival Schedule Planner ↗
Music festivals are durable cultural institutions and Khatsahlano is in its 14+ year run, so annual demand persists, but a single-festival scoped app has a 1-day-per-year peak and must expand to many fests to stay relevant.Khatsahlano Returns To West 4th Avenue On July 11th ↗
The schedule/conflict UI is trivially buildable, but the real cost is curating lineups and set times for dozens of festivals without an API; feasible for one festival (manual entry), hard to scale across the long tail.Festival Schedule Planner for Set Times, Lineup Conflicts, and Offline ... ↗